How to: Scheme Your Way to an Up-Grade

There’s nothing worse than waking up to a CITsender email in your inbox while on break. Penn InTouch is lagging and you’re trying to anticipate how much of a blow your Orgo grade will be to your GPA. Have no fear. Ego is here

Course: EAS-203: Engineering Ethics

Grade: C

How to Up-Grade: Make small, squeamish male TA uncomfortable by referencing your lady troubles on the day of the exam

Course: MATH-170: Ideas in Mathematics

Grade: B-

How to Up–Grade: Hunt down TA with their preferred cup of coffee (that you saw him drinking this one time on Facebook. You’re his stalker, not his firne friend).

Course: BEPP-208: Housing Markets

Grade: D+

How to Up–Grade: If you have any tears left from this class, cry.

Course: RELS-259: Ultimate Meanings

Grade: A

How to Up–Grade: There are no wrong answers in this class.

Course: RELS-370: Corpse as Material Culture in the Study of Religion

Grade: B

How to Up–Grade: Promise to die and donate your body to the class in exchange for an A-.

Course: COMM-125: Communication Behavior

Grade: C

How to Up–Grade: Straight up drop out of Penn. This is not the place for you.

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